The Wages of Revolution: Life Underground in Shanghai in the Late 1920s (Part 3)
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Discussing pay for professional revolutionaries, the role of servants in the lives of Communist leaders, and the Comintern in Shanghai. Further reading: Patricia Stranahan, Underground: The Shanghai Communist Party and the Politics of Survival, 1927-1937 Elizabeth Perry, Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor Wang Fan-hsi [Wang Fanxi], Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary Gavin McCrea, Mrs. Engels Frederick Litten, “The Noulens Affair” Anna Belogurova, “The Civic World of International Communism: Taiwanese communists and the Comintern (1921-1931)” Onimaru Takeshi, “Shanghai Connection: The Construction and Collapse of the Comintern Network in East and Southeast Asia” Jospehine Fowler, “From East to West and West to East: Ties of Solidarity in the Pan-Pacific Revolutionary Trade Union Movement, 1923-1934” Josephine Fowler, Japanese and Chinese Immigrant Activists: Organizing in American and International Communist Movements, 1919–1933 Frederic Wakeman, Policing Shanghai, 1927-1937 Some names from this episode: Liu Shaoqi, Leading Communist He Baozhen, Communist cadre and wife of Liu Shaoqi Li Dazhao, Co-founder of Chinese Communist Party Qu Qiubai, Top Communist leader Wang Fanxi, A member of the Central Committee Organization Bureau Zhang Guotao, Leading Communist Peng Shuzi, Leading Communist expelled in 1929 Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=DACDMMMEASJVJ)
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